MEMORIES OF ALBERT & BEYOND (PATHE PICTORIAL) [Main Title]

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  • Title: MEMORIES OF ALBERT & BEYOND (PATHE PICTORIAL) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 2082
  • Other titles: YPRES - THE IMMORTAL (PATHE PICTORIAL) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Two short coloured films revisiting World War I sites.
  • Description: I. Albert and Beyond (subtitled "A Great War Study") shows Albert cathedral, Thiepval, Delville Wood and the memorial at Newfoundland Park with views of rusting barbed wire, flooded trenches, duckboards and guns. II. Ypres (subtitled "A Pathecolor Memory Picture") has shots of streets in Ypres and of the ruined Cloth Hall and cathedral. A brief shot of the Menin Gate ends the film.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (MGH 2082)
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  • Production Date: 1920
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Pathe (Production sponsor)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour (Pathecolor) Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 324 ft; Running time: 5 mins (at 16 fps)
  • Notes: Technical: a Pathecolor (ie hand-stencilled colour) film. Remarks: the "colorisation" gives a very attractive though slightly unreal look to the carefully framed images.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 2082

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